Integrated block for PCI Express® (PCIe), for up to x8 Gen3 Endpoint and Root Port designs.

Wide variety of configuration options, including support for commodity memories, 256-bit AES encryption with HMAC/SHA-256 authentication, and built-in SEU detection and correction.

Low-cost, wire-bond, lidless flip-chip, and high signal integrity flipchip packaging offering easy migration between family members in the same package. All packages available in Pb-free and selected packages in Pb option.

Designed for high performance and lowest power with 28 nm, HKMG, HPL process, 1.0V core voltage process technology and 0.9V core voltage option for even lower power.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages

Xilinx® 7 series FPGAs comprise three new FPGA families that address the complete range of system requirements, ranging from low cost, small form factor, cost-sensitive, high-volume applications to ultra high-end connectivity bandwidth, logic capacity, and signal processing capability for the most demanding high-performance applications.

Virtex®-7 Family: Optimized for highest system performance and capacity with a 2X improvement in system performance.

Xilinx, Inc. is an American technology company and is primarily a supplier of programable logic devices. It is known for inventing the field-programming gate array and as the semicondcutot company that created the first fabless manufacturing model. Ross Freeman, Bernard Vonderschmitt, and James V Barnett II, former employees of Zilog, an integrated circuit and solid-state device manufacturer, co-founded Xilinx in 1984 with headquarters in San Jose, USA.